Lottie's Wood, bell pit

In January 2007 after deep ploughing of a field by the Woodland Trust to create wild flower meadow grassland, a distinctive circular feature was revealed, formed by a dark soil with coal and shale inclusions, against the surrounding pale plough soil. Almost certainly a bell pit. There is probably a second pit some 30m or so to the south-west. Found by the Sunniside Local History Society.